Romanticism bubbled up as lava from such historical eruptions as the Napoleonic Wars. The power of its flow across disciplines and linguistic borders reminds us that the use of the term in a context limited to one linguistic, national, or political tradition, or to one discipline or area of human development, shows an essential ignorance of the ideational configurations elaborated and lived out by the movement. Among its consistent norms are the notion ofreality as a transcendent self-unfolding Geist, everything existing in a dialectical relationship with all else; the position that art reveals mythic understructures of reality; and that all kinds of kinship are more normalthan isolation. This book brings together essays that highlight the inclusivity of Romanticism. A team of twelve scholars offers fresh glimpses of Romanticism as it manifests itself in a number of disciplines, including most prominently literature, but also music, painting, and the sciences. In so doing, this volume treats Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, providing data and interpretive viewpoints that illuminate the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement. Contributors: Carol Padgham Albrecht, Christopher R. Clason, Lloyd Davies, Ellis Dye, Kasturi Ghosh, Stacey Hahn, Hollie Markland Harder, Sarah Lippert, Seigo Nakao, Larry H. Peer, Marjean D. Purinton, Joseph Rockelmann, Kaitlin Gowan Southerly. Larry H. Peer is Professor of Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. Christopher R. Clason is Professor of German at Oakland University.

Introduction: The Polyvalence of Romanticism - Larry H. PeerWerther and Harold: Rapport and Difference in the Literary Articulation of the Romantic Subject - Lloyd DaviesBalzac and the French New Wave: A Problematic but Enticing Relationship - Stacey HahnRomantic Relations and Constructive Affinities: Notions of Family in Kater Murr - Christopher R. ClasonFrançoise's Way and Bloch's Way: Two Paths of French Romanticism in Proust's À la recherche - Hollie Markland HarderLiminal Transgressions: Gautier's Vampires in Giselle and La morte amoureuse - Jennifer Law SullivanLiminal Transgressions: Gautier's Vampires in Giselle and La morte amoureuse - Ashley ShamsThe Iconography of Girodet's Endymion during the French Revolution - Sarah LippertA Romantic Scientist in Percy Shelley's Alastor - Kaitlin Gowan SoutherlyCanines and Other Quadrupeds: Human and Animal Relations Staged in Romantic Drama - Marjean D. PurintonGoethe and Individuation - Ellis Dye - DECEASED IN 2017Notes on the ContributorsIndex